Mass Migration/Bughunt For Thunderbird Tuesday

Posted by timothy on Saturday August 7, 2004 @10:45AM from the good-seats-are-still-available dept.

maggeth writes "mozillaZine is spreading the word of a plan to have a mass migration of users from other email clients on this coming Tuesday in order to find any remaining bugs in the migration process. 'Bring your Outlook, Eudora, Mozilla, Outlook Express, and Communicator e-mail clients with you and join us on IRC for a day of testing the Thunderbird migration features. The goal is to get as many testing migrations performed on as many clients and as many operating systems as possible and to discuss and record all the problems in Bugzilla.' Read the full article for more details and for the IRC location."

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Re:Great! by gnu-generation-one · 2004-08-07 11:32 · Score: 3, Insightful

For anyone seriously needing to migrate from a webmail provider, there are various Perl tools such as yahoo mail downloader.

If your favourite web-based data source doesn't already have a tool to access it using Perl, there are also web-scraper modules (and LWP) which make it easy to build your own. Remember to put it on CPAN if you create something new.